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Plasco Energy Group Inc. (Plasco or the company) today announced that it will build a 150,000 tonnes per year Waste Conversion Facility in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The announcement comes after the City of Ottawaannounced on December 14th signing agreements with Plasco. The Facility will be built to the Plasco Conversion System (PCS™) design and will incorporate three proprietary ...

Original story at MIT News Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices, solid-state materials that can produce electricity ...

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and City of San Jose will celebrate the city’s successful food-waste-to-energy program at a tour of the nation’s first large-scale commercial anaerobic digestion facility, privately owned and operated by Zero Waste Energy Development Company. “Thanksgiving is a great time to focus on reducing food waste, the largest single material ...

Clean energy recovery from waste business Energos (www.energos.com) says the government's decision to reverse proposed changes to Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC) support for Advanced Conversion Technologies (ACT) under its recent review will unlock much needed new generation infrastructure, including its own £450 million investment pipeline, and has ...

Energos turns up the heat on energy from waste Energy from waste (efw) facilities must utilise their heat potential to maximise efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions savings. That was the message from Nick Dawber, Managing Director of UK-based Energos (www.energos.com) to The Waste to Energy City Summit, held in London on 21 ...

A consortium led by Waste2Tricity Limited has submitted an Expression of Interest to the London Waste & Recycling Board (LWRB), in response to the Board’s open call for environmentally responsible and innovative approaches to deal with the capital’s 21 million tonnes of rubbish produced annually. Waste2Tricity’s solution is to use plasma gasification technology combined with fuel cells to ...

Clarke Energy has secured its first order for a revolutionary technology that creates electricity from waste heat. Agri-gen a developer of anaerobic digestion plants has signed an order with Clarke Energy to supply the system to its Rendlesham anaerobic digester in Ipswich. Clarke Energy secures its first orders for two of GE’s ...

CHARLOTTE, NC, March 22, 2010. EcoPlus, Inc. (Pink Sheets ECPL) announced today that it has executed an exclusive agreement with Converse and Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina, to represent the Company in future sales of its biofuel product. EcoPlus controls a patented, commercially proven technology that utilizes an environmentally friendly process for turning brown grease restaurant ...

Madison, Wisconsin, United States – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, and its joint venture partner, The Boldt Company, today announced the award of a contract by the Wisconsin State Department of Administration for the conversion of a coal-fired power plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus from coal-burning to biomass. The value of ...

GDT Tek, Inc., (OTC: GDTK) company focused on renewable and sustainable energy technologies. The company has licensed patented waste heat to electric power generation technology and is driving its adoption by power plants, landfills and other waste-heat generating industries announced today that GDT TEK, will begin offering its ORC unit that converts waste heat into electricity (the ...

ORLANDO, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 06/17/10 -- GDT TEK (PINKSHEETS: GDTK) today announced that it has released a video of the waste heat to electricity technology. The technology was videoed at a San Jose California area landfill where the system successfully tested and operated for over five years. The video gives a technical description of the process. The system shown in the video generates up ...

Original story at MIT news. A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. This technique could ...

Gouda- Recently Imtech (technical services provider in Europe) took further steps in the development of technological concepts for generating alternative energy. The latest innovations involve the conversion of residues and waste flows into sustainable energy. This has resulted in a first series of orders with a value of around 20 million euro. Imtech CEO ...

[ISLAMABAD] Waste tea leaves could be a cheap source of biofuel that does not compromise food security, according to Pakistani scientists. Researchers from the Nanoscience and Catalysis Division at Quaid-i-Azam University used a nanocatalyst, metal nanoparticles that accelerate reactions, to produce biodiesel from used tea leaves. 'The world today is consuming several million tonnes of tea ...

Long considered a costly problem, municipal solid waste is now emerging as an important revenue-generating feedstock for waste-to-energy systems. As municipalities look to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of their sustainability planning initiatives, new and innovative methods for burning wastes to generate heat and power are emerging. And while, at first ...

Recycling of excess heat, via ‘district heating’, has the potential to improve energy efficiency in Europe. This study mapped excess heat and demands for heat in EU27 Member States to identify regions suitable for the large-scale implementation of district heating. The authors identified 63 ‘heat synergy regions’, generally large urban zones, which generated almost half of ...

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